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own pack in the Woodland side. Doddington Hall is a very handsome Elizabethan house, with a gabled gatehouse, and much curious decoration. There are fine carvings and tapestry, and some valuable pictures in the gallery, including portraits by Lely, Reynolds, and other masters; and a quaint portrait of Lord Hussey, who was beheaded by Henry VIII. in 1536.

Among the numerous and lamentable drowning fatalities of last week one of the most tragic was the death of Mr. Percy Hughes Jones, a junior member of the staff of Truth, who had seen the war through, in one way and another, from the first day to the last. He had been serving in the Queen's Westminsters for a few months when the war broke out, and he went out with the regiment to France two months later, among the first of [[cut off]] the Territorials though he [[/cut off]] need not have done so unless